Enchanting Farming - Large Brilliant Shards

Post by Zerole

Hey guys, I'm currently not playing WoW but I plan to start again late May. Before that though, I've been planning out my character and I've considering picking up Enchanting once I hit Lv70 to farm Large Brilliant Shards for a good steady income. It's been two years since I've played however and I was wondering, is there still a good demand for Large Brilliant Shards? I've ready a quite a few guides regarding this in terms of farming BRD, Strat, and etc, but is still a legitimate way to make money? Thanks.

Post by SmashBangPop

You an no longer DE all items as a low lvl enchanter. You need to lvl your enchanting to DE higher level items. Eg a lvl 60 blue might require 225 enchanting to DE. (my numbers might be out a little there)

Post by Zerole

Yeah I'm aware of that, I was going to power level it to 375 and pick up all the Rep and attainable drop Recipes as well. DEing will just be my primary source of income.

Post by Quab

It's a good source of income if you have a class that can easily farm those 50-60 dungeons. I basically got my epic flyer money for my first 70 by killing bosses in DM:E on my mage. Check your local AH first, obviously.

Post by Buffoon

I wouldn't count on making a really good profit from sell Large Brilliant Shards anymore, people seem to go after the TBC level shards, dust and essences now.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there is still profit in farming and selling them. It's just that once you hit 70 you'll see that there are better and more efficient ways to make gold.

Looking on my AH (Horde Quel'Thalas) there's always a glut of brilliant shards, both large and small.

Post by hordy

there are still a fair amount of demand for LBS these days, largely due to the twink community who still enchant those pre-TBC high end stuff, which uses quite some LBS and Eternal Essences...

LBS goes for 8-15g on my server

Post by sugarzombie

my level 62 paladin disenchants for profit... i can afford my flying mount already because of it (but i can't train that until 70, of coarse). auctioneer + enchantrix = profit. level to 275 and DE for profit... i went to 300 because i had the extra mats laying around. i'll go higher when i find a pattern i want, but i have the prof primarily to DE4$$$

short version: you don't need to go shard farming to make a lot of money from enchanting

Post by Gonglez

Greater Eternal Essences, at least on my server, sell for 20g a pop. I can farm 8-10 of those in an hour by accident. I'd try to get the items people actually USE to level enchanting versus Large Brilliant Shards which can be mostly skipped over when someone is leveling their enchating to 300.

Post by sugarzombie

... Large Brilliant Shards which can be mostly skipped over when someone is leveling their enchating to 300.

Post by Gonglez

Agreed, twinks will always buy the shards, but how much of the player population is comprised of twinks? I know it varies per server but my point is why not farm something that is easier to get and will generate close to the same amount of money, and be bought from a wider portion of the population?

Even the wowhead price (I know it's not server specific) puts them both at 10g a piece. I have never sold any Large Brilliant Shard, or Greater Eternal Essences for that price (usually more) but I have sold them for about equal prices.

Post by Zerole

Large Brilliants are actually very easy to get, as a Rogue I can Stealth and solo most bosses in the Lv50-60 instances. Unlike farming other things that are based on luck, these are guaranteed drops. The only real obstacle will be whether or not they'll sell well. I'm also considering farming Dire Maul for Greater Eternals since quite a few bosses there drop BoP Uncommon Weapons. On my original Mal'Ganis server, Large Brilliants sold for about 5G whereas Greater Eternals sold for 10-15G.

Post by Camping

IMO Chain farm DM North and Just get and sell greater Eternals. Easy gold but too be honest, do your dailies as your main source of income, as with the amount blizzard added making 300g+ from dailies is cake.

But I'd reccomend PLing Engineering/mining to be honest. People underestimate the money you can make here. Get a Zapthrottel mote extractor at 305 engineering get a Node tracking addon I.E. Gatherer and Download someones database of recorded nodes. Here's how it goes.

Post by Gonglez

Large Brilliants are actually very easy to get, as a Rogue I can Stealth and solo most bosses in the Lv50-60 instances. Unlike farming other things that are based on luck, these are guaranteed drops. The only real obstacle will be whether or not they'll sell well. I'm also considering farming Dire Maul for Greater Eternals since quite a few bosses there drop BoP Uncommon Weapons. On my original Mal'Ganis server, Large Brilliants sold for about 5G whereas Greater Eternals sold for 10-15G.

I find this to be a flawed way of doing it too for several reasons:1. Only 2 classes have stealth2. Not everyone is an enchanter3. Being stealthed and going straight for the boss takes away from the multitudes of Greater Eternal Essences you could be grinding from green BOEs you might get from random elites in instances.

I guess it all boils down to a matter of opinion. I do appreciate the fact that BOP blues are guaranteed shards I just find it more efficient to farm for greater eternal essences myself.

Also it depends on what your class is better towards... a rogue wouldn't be as good at taking down a group of 5-6 level 55-60 elites at once, while a hunter (what I normally play) would be. However I'm sure as heck you could probably take a boss down faster than I could... meh.

End story, find out what works for you and do it.

Post by Gonglez

But I'd reccomend PLing Engineering/mining to be honest. People underestimate the money you can make here.

QFT I have always been an engineer. Pre-BC it was true we had no real ways to make money but Blizzard has given us the best way now.

Post by Zerole

Large Brilliants are actually very easy to get, as a Rogue I can Stealth and solo most bosses in the Lv50-60 instances. Unlike farming other things that are based on luck, these are guaranteed drops. The only real obstacle will be whether or not they'll sell well. I'm also considering farming Dire Maul for Greater Eternals since quite a few bosses there drop BoP Uncommon Weapons. On my original Mal'Ganis server, Large Brilliants sold for about 5G whereas Greater Eternals sold for 10-15G.

I find this to be a flawed way of doing it too for several reasons:1. Only 2 classes have stealth2. Not everyone is an enchanter3. Being stealthed and going straight for the boss takes away from the multitudes of Greater Eternal Essences you could be grinding from green BOEs you might get from random elites in instances.

I guess it all boils down to a matter of opinion. I do appreciate the fact that BOP blues are guaranteed shards I just find it more efficient to farm for greater eternal essences myself.

Also it depends on what your class is better towards... a rogue wouldn't be as good at taking down a group of 5-6 level 55-60 elites at once, while a hunter (what I normally play) would be. However I'm sure as heck you could probably take a boss down faster than I could... meh.

End story, find out what works for you and do it.

1) I'm making a Rogue so this isn't really a problem.2) I made this thread to get feedback on the demand on mats acquired through Enchanting farming.3) In a comparison between guaranteed drops and luck based BOE drops I think I'd stick with the former. As I stated earlier however, there are certain bosses that are more likely to drop BoP Uncommons and I can always farm them instead if I'm after Greater Eternals.

Post by Zerole

IMO Chain farm DM North and Just get and sell greater Eternals. Easy gold but too be honest, do your dailies as your main source of income, as with the amount blizzard added making 300g+ from dailies is cake.

But I'd reccomend PLing Engineering/mining to be honest. People underestimate the money you can make here. Get a Zapthrottel mote extractor at 305 engineering get a Node tracking addon I.E. Gatherer and Download someones database of recorded nodes. Here's how it goes.

It's not a matter of how much gold you can make, but how much you can make per unit of time. For this reason I don't think dailies are as effective since the footwork alone is the major time killer. As far as Cloud/Node farming goes, I've done circles farming mining veins in the past and in general I think it's mostly luck based for both methods. Even if you know the spawn points, this doesn't mean they'll be up whenever you check, and there's also the added hindrance of someone else farming them as well.

Without Enchanting farming however, the drops are guaranteed and the instance is your own. Based on a 10G average per Large Brilliant or Greater Eternal, I've read that BRD farming alone can yield 300G an hour if you hit the instance cap and farm the most time efficient bosses.

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